Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 06:44:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Passki <cykyc@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD ports <FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FYI: new port security/portaudit-db Message-ID: <20040613134426.91585.qmail@web50301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <41764F4F-BD1A-11D8-B633-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
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--- Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> wrote: > Dear porters and port users, <snip about new port> > I take this announcement as an opportunity to make a plea to all > port > maintainers: > > * please stick with *one* PKGNAMESUFFIX (possibly using a > combined one > like -sasl-client) > > * please *do not* change the structure of the packages version > number > according to included components. > > Lets take for example port `myport' with has optional components > c1 and > c2. This *should not* > result in the following package names: > > port-v > port-suf1-v+v1 > port-suf2-v+v2 > port-suf1-suf2-v+v1+v2 > > because I need 2^(number of components) entries to catch all > possible > combinations, for example the > recent vulnerability in www/apache13-modssl would need 32 entries > in the > vulnerability database, > which seems a little high. A net effect is that many combinations > are > not recognized, and users remain > unprotected even though they assume the opposite. If you need to > record > the included components, please > do this in the pkg-message, which is displayed with pkg_info -D. > > Again: > > * a port should *not* change its version numbering based on > included > components > > * restrain yourself to *one* suffix in the package name (and use > a dash > to seperate it from the main ports name) No bikeshed here, just pointing out that if you go this route then change the porters-handbook. Chapter 5.2.4 allows what you wish to avoid. Jon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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